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Haven't you previously mentioned a hoarding problem? That must be a very big step for you! Now on to the stacks of newspapers .

No newspapers. (Tonight old electronics are going into a box and then going to the electronics dump next Wednesday.)

I am pleased to see I fall in the normal range (as I judge it) of where and how to keep meds. In fact I told my shrink about this thread and throwing out the bottles and she learned something cause she has another patient jumping through hoops to keep his Norvir cold since he travels for his job. I told her it was not necessary and asked if he had an ID or a GP and she said GP and I said that he should look it up on the net or call any swiss HIV ID and he could relax about this.

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ďFrom each, according to his ability; to each, according to his needĒ 1875 K Marx

Isentress, Viread and Reyataz in kitchen cupboard, Norvir in the fridge (are the Norvir tablets available in the UK yet?). I keep the tabs that don't need refrigeration in the kitchen cupboard simply because (apart from the evening dose of Isentress) I need to take them with food and it's quite convenient having the tabs near the food!

I fill a weekly pill box (13 prescriptions) and keep that on the kitchen counter. The back up is in a kitchen cabinet. Looks like a frickin pharmacy. Im surprised how many of you you still take the Norvir that needs refrigeration. I switched to the tablets. So much easier and you can get them in the mail.

I've mailed one Atripla tablet to a representative in each of the 50 states and one to each of over 100 countries - I am currently on stand-by to have one pill taken on the space shuttle and placed at the international space station.

I also have them conveniently stashed at a local supermarket, car wash, night club, barbershop, fast food restaurant, movie theater, and adult bookstore.

I have four additional bottles of Atripla as a safety stock, I'm keeping them in a sock drawer at the bottom of the dresser where they are low and cool.

Please don't forget to rotate your stocks. Every time you get new bottles, the new ones should go in your sock drawer and the older ones should be the ones you use. My bf forgot to rotate his for a while and ended up with a few bottles of out-of-date meds.

"...health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for." Kofi Annan

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. Mignon McLaughlin

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character. Randy Shilts

Miss P do you remember them pill-boxes, you know the one's with the timers that went Beep Beep Beep, I used to carry one, and use to laugh when they all went-off on the dance floor, are @ the Bar when it was time to take your AZT I know your not as old as I'm and your not in your middle 50s like me so ifanyone else remembers this please acknowledge......Thanks

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"it's so nice to be insane, cause no-one ask you to explain" Helen Reddy cc 1974

storage in a fire/water proof safe in my gun cabinet along with my birth certificate, will, dnr, dd214, passport etc, current week supply in a pill case in a lockable med cabinet, three keys for each, one on me, one my father carries, one buried over my dogs grave

When I lived alone, I kept them in the kitchen cupboard. Since a friend of mine lost her job, she has moved in for a bit. I now keep them in my locked filing cabinet.....she doesn't know of my condition.